Re: timezone GUC

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>>> Was this dealt with?

>> Yes, as much as I think is reasonable anyway. See
>> commit e05b866447899211a0c2df31bf0671faac4fc3e5.

> I am (and, I think, Alvaro is also) of the opinion that the behavior
> here is still not really right.

I don't see a practical way to do better unless we can find a less
horridly inefficient way of implementing identify_system_timezone().
Unfortunately, it's unlikely that there is one, even if you're willing
to make the simplifying assumption that the system timezone is based
on some entry in the Olson database.

regards, tom lane